I’m sorry for these people and they were treated very badly by authorities who used no common sense but a lot of unnecessary force. However, if they can’t pay for the house, they can’t keep it. Tragedy, no matter how heartbreaking, doesn’t give people a free pass on responsibility.
Personally I don’t think police should be involved in enforcing foreclosures between the bank and citizens. That isn’t to say that the bank is or isn’t in the right, just that police should not be used.
I further think tax foreclosures should be illegal.
I agree with you. Life does not come with any guarantees. What did these people think was going to happen when they said they were not leaving? Everyone would just say OK?
I have been a landlord since I was 26 (30 years). There are lots of people who think that when they can not pay the rent, it is my problem not theirs. Just because someone is "going down" because of bad decisions, doesn't mean I'm going with them. Fortunately, I have gotten pretty good at avoiding renting to them, in the first place.
“...doesn’t give people a free pass on responsibility.”
I hope you have to eat those words one of these days. If you understood banking, the mortgage system and the courts you might see some of this differently. And is seems obvious that you lack any compassion for those less fortunate.
“””However, if they can’t pay for the house, they can’t keep it. Tragedy, no matter how heartbreaking, doesn’t give people a free pass on responsibility.””””
unless you are too big to fail business, right?
Some animals are more = thing.
Give it back to the banksters and fat corps who were bailed out to the tune of trillions, by the Grabers along with millions of other Americans.